A coast is more than a view

Paul Theroux travels around the coast of Britain in 1982, walking and taking trains from town to town, with a skeptical eye for the places and people he meets.

Katherine May walks the South West Coast Path over a year while coming to understand her autism, weaving the walk together with family life and diagnosis.

Graham Mackintosh recounts a long walk around the coast of Baja California, where desert meets sea, meeting fishermen and ranchers in a remote and often punishing landscape.

Samanth Subramanian travels the coasts of India following fish, from Kolkata’s hilsa to Hyderabad’s fish-swallowing asthma cure, and the people who catch, cook and eat them.

Susan Hand Shetterly writes about the seaweeds of the Gulf of Maine and the harvesters, farmers and scientists who work with them, and what their harvest means for the shore.